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Bug 82757

Summary:	Provide a gcj build.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Francois Bles <kruskal>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Platform-Releng-Inbox <platform-releng-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	thatnitind, tromey
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Francois Bles

2005-01-13 11:00:10 EST

A gcj build of the eclipse platform would be welcome.
RedHat had a non official gcj build of a previous eclipse release, that ran very
fine and fast.
That gcj build is the only missing thing that let me use emacs instead of
eclipse anymore.

Comment 1 Kim Moir

2005-01-13 11:46:56 EST

Could you comment on this request?

Here is an article about eclipse + gcj

http://www.coconut-palm-software.com/the_visual_editor/2004/10/30

Of course, there are some legal issues because this code is gnu.

Comment 2 Francois Bles

2005-01-13 13:29:19 EST

Very interesting article.

If some patches need to be made to improge gcj itself, they must be made under
GPL, of course.

But there is no issue for code you build with gcj:

"libgcj is distributed under the GPL, with the 'libgcc exception'. This means
that linking with libgcj does not by itself cause your program to fall under the
GPL."

I'm not sure that a discution on legal issues like that has its place in the
bugzilla, mailing lists may be better for that.

Comment 3 Tom Tromey

2005-01-19 14:16:31 EST

First, there is no legal problem building Eclipse (or any
java code) with gcj and then running it.  People needing
details can send me email.

Red Hat has a gcj-built eclipse in rawhide at the moment.
It relies on features that will be available in the gcc 4.0
release (also packaged in rawhide).

I suggest you take a look at this.  I'm happy to help other
distros build eclipse this way, or eclipse.org if they are
interested.

Comment 4 Kim Moir

2005-02-11 17:27:34 EST

The issue for the eclipse SDK is that we have our own compiler from the jdtcore
team.  If we were to provide a build of eclipse compiled with gcj, we would have
to allocate people resources to solve bugs related to compiling eclipse with gcj
instead of the compiler provided with eclipse. We don't have the resources to do
so at this time.

I'm currently working on a related bug which to build the compiler from source
in the source build.  This may be of interest to people who want a an eclipse
built completely from source instead using of the compiler jars.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=84914

Comment 5 Kim Moir

2005-05-27 11:15:29 EDT

Marking bug as helpwanted.

Comment 6 Kim Moir

2005-09-14 10:25:54 EDT

marking as later

Comment 7 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:20:07 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.